Florent Willems, Circa 1870, Signed Oil on Board Painting, Young Woman Reading

Description

Florent Willems, Young Woman Reading

Oil On Board
10” x 12.5” (art size)
13” x 16” (with frame)

Country of Origin: Belgium
Date of work: approximately 1856
Signatures labels or markings: Signed F. Willems.
Areas of Damage: Chips / loss to the frame and the painting. Consistent with age and use.

Estimated value (based on similar artwork sold from Willems): $3000-$5000

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Florent Willems (1823 – 1905)
Florent Willems was a Belgian 19th Century painter who was born in 1823. Numerous key galleries and museums such as Musée Félicien Rops have featured Florent Willems’s work in the past. Florent Willems’s work has been offered at auction multiple times, with realized prices ranging from $2800 USD to $57,181 USD, depending on the size and medium of the artwork. Since 1998 the record price for this artist at auction is $57,181 USD for Le départ pour la chasse au faucon, sold at Christie’s London in 2008. The artist died in 1905.